AN/FPS-90
USA /
California /
Lexington Hills /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Lexington Hills
World / United States / California
military, radar station, historical layer / disappeared object
Residual concrete stand foundations remove November, 2013.
Replaced an earlier AN/FPS-6A height-finder radar located on this spot. The FPS-90 is a high-powered version of the FPS-6A.
"The AN/FPS-6 radar was introduced into service in the late 1950s and served as the principal height-finder radar for the United States for several decades thereafter. Built by General Electric, the S-band radar radiated at a frequency of 2700 to 2900 MHz. Between 1953 and 1960, 450 units of the AN/FPS-6 and the mobile AN/MPS-14 version were produced."
www.radomes.org/museum/equip/radarequip.php?link=fps-6....
Replaced an earlier AN/FPS-6A height-finder radar located on this spot. The FPS-90 is a high-powered version of the FPS-6A.
"The AN/FPS-6 radar was introduced into service in the late 1950s and served as the principal height-finder radar for the United States for several decades thereafter. Built by General Electric, the S-band radar radiated at a frequency of 2700 to 2900 MHz. Between 1953 and 1960, 450 units of the AN/FPS-6 and the mobile AN/MPS-14 version were produced."
www.radomes.org/museum/equip/radarequip.php?link=fps-6....
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°9'38"N 121°53'53"W
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Santa Cruz Facility 29 km
- Castroville Amphibious Training Area (site) 46 km
- Fort Ord Housing 58 km
- Bombing Target No. 5 (site) 59 km
- California National Guard Training Area 61 km
- Presidio of Monterey and Defence Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI-FLC) 62 km
- Camp Shoemaker 63 km
- Gustine Bombing Range (site) 71 km
- Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Vernalis 71 km
- Tracy Defense Distribution Depot 77 km
- Mount Umunhum/Almaden Air Force Station 0.4 km
- Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve 1.7 km
- Lake Elsman 4.1 km
- Almaden Quicksilver County Park 4.5 km
- Mountain Charlie Christmas Tree Farm 8.3 km
- Soquel Demonstration State Forest 9 km
- Alfred Hitchcock Estate 11 km
- Uvas Canyon County Park 13 km
- The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park 15 km
- San Andreas Fault Zone 30 km